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- AmnesiacJack, on 07/01/2009, -1/+45Just wait till you have to buy air.
- govsucks, on 07/01/2009, -10/+47You have a right to collect and purify all the water you want. You DO NOT have a right to force someone else to labor for you purifying water. Why does simple logic like that escape people?
This comes down to one question. Do you or do you not have a right to force someone to labor for you.
I personally thought slavery was a bad thing, but perhaps now people are changing their opinion simply because they want something they are too lazy to obtain on their own.
Slavery is OK if you claim you have a "right" to the benefit of that slavery. Who cares if a water treatment guy doesn't get paid, you have a right to force him to work so you can have water. Who cares if the orderly has to clean your ***** and vomit and won't get paid, you have a right to healthcare.
Talk about people who only think of themselves. You wanna see selfish, stop staring at the rich and find a mirror.
Food is next, OOO, and then internet service. Cell phones, everyone has a right to a cellphone.
Irony: when a black president enslaves the entire nation to the state. - yoderizer, on 07/01/2009, -2/+34You mean the stuff in the toilet?
- kartman2001, on 06/30/2009, -1/+32***** LA They keep buying up water rights from hundreds of miles away. Greedy ass city has done some serious damage to the Owens Valley draining the Owens River.
- TheBifman, on 07/01/2009, -3/+30Sooo...how is this different from food?
- Shidell, on 07/01/2009, -6/+28shear stupidity, eh?
- thekeggerman, on 07/01/2009, -3/+24Food is a crop that is grown by a farmer, water falls from the sky. When you buy food, you are paying for the farmers time and resources.
If you are using a cities water supply then you are paying for the plumbing of all the pipes and treatment of the water to ensure it is clean when it gets to you. If you choose to collect the water that falls from the sky then, YES, it should be free!! - shadebane, on 06/30/2009, -1/+20Thank god i live on the great lakes basin, and no you cant have any!
- Raptor007, on 07/01/2009, -1/+17I can assure you, there is no air shortage on Planet Druidia!
*gasps and inhales air from can* - aznhomig, on 07/01/2009, -5/+21OK, so declaring it a human right makes it so?
Gotcha. That was easy! - chriswastaken, on 10/27/2009, -3/+19Without water, there is no food.
- inactive, on 07/01/2009, -0/+15Does it have electrolytes?
- Paulish, on 07/01/2009, -3/+17"Of course, it’s a lot easier to declare a right than to enforce it."
Yes. Yes it is. I can't wait till water is seized by governments in Africa as it is a "Right", something that governments are supposed protect, and then used as another tool in politics. The dictators will probably do the same thing with the water that they do with food, distribute it to political supporters and allies and keep it from opposition.
Perhaps I have grown jaded, but I don't really believe in rights. All it means to me now is that the government needs to be expanded to protect these new "rights". What is a right anyways? From where do we get this concept? Is it just something we make to feel better inside? - Fruit45, on 07/01/2009, -1/+15Damn right water should never be privatized. It's just outrageous that companies can lay claim over life's juice.
I think Canada has nationalized its water, and it's working out for them nicely. - Scopitone, on 07/01/2009, -1/+14So tired of people should-ing on each other.
- V1ruk, on 07/01/2009, -9/+22Explain?
Without water in 3 days you will be stone dead.
If some company today decides to make the water in your area unaffordable to you, in 3 days you will be dead.
This should be a basic human right, it's a basic human necessity. - warsongs7, on 07/01/2009, -0/+12Looks the documentary "the corporation" was right.
- diggcensors, on 07/01/2009, -2/+14Your mom should be a human right.
- Akairenn, on 07/01/2009, -6/+18And the Internet. That so definitely needs to be a human right.
And naked pictures of Angelina Jolie. It'd be criminal and immoral to not distribute those to humanity. - KDX200rider, on 07/01/2009, -3/+14Of course it is a human right, when it rains you have the right to open your mouth and look up.
- Jaime2000, on 07/01/2009, -2/+12They really should use salt water for toilets. It would save a lot of valuable drinking water.
- DouglasQ, on 07/01/2009, -1/+11Project Purity?
- antoniuk, on 07/01/2009, -0/+10Description is inaccurate. The world's fresh water supplies are not dwindling. The world's drinkable fresh water supplies are dwindling. We are polluting faster than we can sustain.
I for one welcome the oncoming water wars and water wars 2, the wettening! - TheOneKen, on 07/01/2009, -0/+10Rights are supposed to be things the government can't take away. Now they're things the government is supposed to provide... that's the problem.
- Pinkertinkle, on 07/01/2009, -16/+26basic rights include life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, food, water, health care, cable tv, and maybe a car
- curtisag, on 07/01/2009, -1/+11It's curious how people invent more and more new "rights" that they should be entitled to as time goes on.
- pjkundert, on 07/01/2009, -1/+11So, what you are suggesting is that the State should own the rights to surface water on your land -- such as around your home? Ya. I can see that working out well...
- RaiseYourFist, on 07/01/2009, -2/+11So... Do you disagree with this article and think Water should be considered a luxury item that only those who can afford it should have? I'm just asking in hopes that you'll offer up something relevant to the article instead of just posting blatantly idiotic remarks like in your first comment.
- Zarokima, on 07/01/2009, -0/+9It's got electrolytes!
- NegativeDigg, on 07/01/2009, -2/+11I know, very stupid!!! everyone knows water should be replaced by Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator
- s0krat3z, on 07/01/2009, -1/+10Ah idiots, the fools of society. Over seventy-five percent of the earth's water is not consumable by humans in its present form, and requires considerable amounts of energy to transform it. Perhaps you thought God would just piss on you, and you'd be all hunky-dory? You want something, you gotta work for it.
- MsArtGeek, on 07/01/2009, -0/+9you just gotta work on your game.
- 3The3Dude3, on 07/01/2009, -6/+15economic equality? I am assuming you mean that you should have to work as hard to attain financial security as other people have to work to obtain theirs?
Otherwise, "economic equality" is just a politically correct way to say slavery. - WeirdEdsel, on 07/01/2009, -3/+12Why drink water when there is Bawls?
- yocouchdigga, on 07/01/2009, -2/+10hey...
you wouldn't happen to have a (possibly retarded) brother that's interested in science and programming, would you? - relaxeder, on 07/01/2009, -2/+10lol, people can't survive on ocean water you dumbass.
- D3L3T3D, on 07/01/2009, -2/+10You won't die from a lack of oversized television
- inactive, on 07/01/2009, -1/+9You know all that legislation they are pushing through without reading? Guess whats in it.
- chrisduser, on 07/01/2009, -1/+8All the water in the world are belong to me. Please send 4000$ and I will send you a lifetime supply of water.
Best regards,
Mabo Admana Dunstan - AmnesiacJack, on 07/01/2009, -1/+8Why drink Bawls when there is Brawndo?
- electraglide75, on 07/01/2009, -1/+8Then my local government shouldn't have the right to force me to use public water.
Here in Central Pennsylvania we are being told to connect to local, "city" water. If we should refuse to pay the $1000 tap fee and back fill our well, our land/house will be condemned as unfit to inhabit.
I've watched as this has happened throughout the county that I live in township by township. After the water comes the township sewage which is coupled with the township refuse system. They couple the sewage/refuse together - if you don't pay your sewage/refuse - they turn of your water off.
I am perfectly capable of collecting and purifying my own water - I've been doing it for a decade in this house and it was done long before I was here. However, when my government FORCES me to close my well and become dependent upon their water treatment facility, the water the government provides me better god damn well be a right. - ZenMojo, on 07/01/2009, -0/+7Coincidentally, food does fall from the sky. As long as you don't cut down all the trees.
- Jaime2000, on 07/01/2009, -10/+17Food should be a human right, too.
- SpinningHead, on 07/01/2009, -12/+18This is communism! We need to let the market decide who gets water!
/s - orangefly, on 07/01/2009, -0/+6no....like this....
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L1ATnZlaJNM/RpufpBkWQ7I/ ... - 00z003, on 07/01/2009, -2/+8that's all that rights are. inventions of the mind.
- miggyb, on 07/01/2009, -0/+6You'd need to double the amount of plumbing in a city, though. It'd be a logistical nightmare.
- 3The3Dude3, on 07/01/2009, -1/+7Brawndo will make you WIN AT YELLING!
- Barackalypse, on 07/01/2009, -10/+16Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, those are your basic human rights, nobody and nothing owes you beyond that.
- fotoman607, on 07/01/2009, -1/+7It isn't water that is running out...it's fresh water and the distribution of it that will give us major problems with in the future.
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